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Jackson's Morning Brush

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on March 21st 2004 by Kevin Rietmann.

This tune has been added to 56 tunebooks.

Also known as Jackson's, Jackson's Favourite, Rogha Mhic Sheain.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

1891-1945 Disc 1 by Michael Coleman
1891-1945 Disc 2 by Michael Coleman
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At Home by Rosie Shipley And Matt Mulqueen
Best Of Irish Ceili Music by Various Artists
Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly
Caise Ceoil by Various Artists
Celtic Reels And Jigs - The Blackberry Blossom by Various Artists
Ceol Agus Foinn : Music And Songs From The Willie Clancy Summer School by Various Artists
Ceol Tire by Various Artists
Clare Concertinas by Bernard O'Sullivan And Tommy McMahon
Classic Recordings Of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music by Hugh Gillespie
Come Dance With Me In Ireland by Various Artists
Come Take The Byroads by McDermott's Handy
Crossing The Bridge by Eileen Ivers
Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 4 by Matt Cunningham
Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 6 by Matt Cunningham
Dance Time In Ireland by Larry McKee And The Shandonairs
Dancing To Jigs And Reels by Various Artists
Different State by Paudie O'Connor
Fairwater (Fionnuisce) by Declan Masterson
Farewell To Ireland CD 3 (Of A Box Set Of 4) by Various Artists
Fiddler's Fancy by Tommy Peoples
For The Love Of Tara by Denis Lanctot
Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn by Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn
From Leitrim To London by Brian Rooney
Gaelic Roots by Various Artists
Galway's Own by Joe Burke
Greenfire by Greenfire
Gusty's Frolicks by Sean Keane
Humdinger by Paul Brock And Enda Scahill
I'm Leaving Tipperary by Various Artists
Irish Accordion by Timmy Cronin
Irish Accordion by Joe Derrane
Irish Cream by Irish Cream
Irish Traditional Fiddle Music by John Kelly And James Kelly With Michael Crehan And Michael Gavin
Last Night's Fun by John Carty
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Macalla Na H�ige by Hugh Healy And Colm Healy
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Past Masters Of Irish Fiddle Music by Various Artists
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Reeds And Rosin by Todd Denman And Dale Russ
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Set You Free by Nomos
Shatter The Calm by Dan Beimborn
Stony Steps by Matt Molloy
Strings Attached by Mick Moloney
The Ancient Music Of Ireland by Various Artists
The Best Ever Traditional Irish Pub Session Volume Two by Various Artists
The Best Of Irish Jigs And Reels Vol.1 by Various Artists
The Brass Fiddle: Traditional Fiddle Music From Donegal by Various Artists
The Flags Of Dublin by Paddy Glackin, Mick O'Brien And Mick Gavin
The Kells by The Kells
The Legendary Angus Fitchet by Angus Fitchet
The Long Finger by Barry Carroll And Joe McHugh
The Next Turn by Trouble In The Kitchen
The Piping Of Patsy Touhey by Patsy Touhey
The Road To Riley by Riley School Of Irish Music
The Steeplechase by Brendan Mulvihill And Donna Long
The Stone In The Field by Tommy Reck
The Wandering Minstrel by Seamus Ennis
Torch And Fire by Dan Beimborn
Touch Me If You Dare by Ronan Browne And Peter O'Loughlin
Traditional Irish Music by William Sullivan
Traditional Irish Music Played On The Uilleann Pipes by Robbie Hannan
Traditional Music Of Ireland by Kathleen Collins
Where I Am by Brendan Callahan
Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 1 by Various Artists

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Ooooo!

I'd forgotten about this tune! Joan Hanrahan taught Matt Heaton and I this jig when I had a lesson from her in Ennis on my honeymoon -- my first lesson with an Irish teacher. She taught us only the first two parts (dunno if it's more commonly done as the full version or just the two), and a slightly more graceful (to my ear) version of the thing than what's here.

Wow, maybe I should teach this one next week at the tune learning session... Thanks for the reminder, Kevin!

# Posted on March 21st 2004 by Zina Lee

Also-

this sounds kinda similar to other tunes like jackson's fancy- well, almost. I've also noticed a lot of tunes with the name 'hag' in them sound silmilar. It's intriguing: I wonder how tunes evolve.

anyway, this can also be found on the CD 'santiago' by the chieftains on the last track, in my opinion the best track, and also I would say this is the best part of that track.

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by micelfife

Starts off very like Rose in the Heather also!

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by Bannerman

Yes, it's true, micifife, sort of like all the Tinker tunes sound a lot like each other...who was Jackson, anybody know?

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by Zina Lee

Jackson�s Morning Brush

I remember hearing somewhere that there was a story behind this name. Something to do with hunting ? And isn�t it the same Jackson as in Jackson�s # 1 and Jackson�s # 2 ?
Can anyone enlighten us ?

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by murfbox

And here I was guessing it had to do with oral hygiene. I usually play it in a medley with that tune about ovine oral hygiene, "Floss the Wethers".

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by GaryAMartin

Hey, cool! I just found this jig in O'Niell's, and was thinking of submitting it. Awesome tune! Thanks Zina.

-Max

# Posted on March 23rd 2004 by Max Becher

Wasn't me, Max! It was Kevin! Sooner or later I'll get through this writing deadline and post the version Joan taught me and Matt...

# Posted on March 23rd 2004 by Zina Lee

The story I've heard--and I think this comes from from Seamus Ennis originally-- is that the title refers to the brush used by an uilleann piper after playing dance tunes all night, because of the dust kicked up by the dancers. The tune was composed by the 18th century Leitrim piper Walker Jackson. Brian McNamara plays several tunes associated with him. See also:

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/JACKSON.htm#_msocom_3

# Posted on January 19th 2005 by gadamson

Sorry, that's Piper Jackson from Limerick; McNamara is from Leitrim.

# Posted on January 19th 2005 by gadamson

Jackson's

I've also seen this piece titled as 'Rogha Mhic Sheain.'

Jackson was an eccentric Monaghan landowner and a reputed piper.

# Posted on February 9th 2005 by Pete D

Jackson's Morning Brush

This is such a nice tune. Will your version is out of O'Neill's is it? That's the only setting I've seen with 4 parts. Others have the 1st 2 or 3 parts. I notice that the 4th part is exactly the same as the B-part of another tune, Jackson's Fancy http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1102, and I'm thinking that maybe these 2 tunes have been mixed up somewhere along the line. I play the 3 part setting:

# Posted on May 23rd 2005 by Dow

Jackson's Morning Brush

The Piper Dennis Brooks played this one for me at the session yesterday afternoon. Dennis said the 4 part version is the original. He also had quite a good bit of interesting information on Walker Jackson....a really fine jig.

# Posted on February 27th 2006 by Harry Jackson

Jackson's Morning Brush

I forgot to mention in my previous post that the 4 part version is in "The Collection of Pipe Friendly Tunes" by John Walsh, which I got from the Irish Piper's Club here in Seattle (affiliated with The San Francisco Piper's Club), which Denis Brooks founded around 1981 when he moved to Seattle from San Francisco.

# Posted on February 27th 2006 by Harry Jackson

At a session last week I heard this played with just the 1st and 4th parts.

# Posted on April 27th 2007 by Dow

According to the Fiddler's Companion, the oldest transcription of this only has 3 parts:

"A volume of his original melodies plus older airs was published in Dublin by Sam Lee c. 1774 (as Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes, reprinted in 1790), and is probably the manuscript O’Neill (1913) refers to as containing the oldest setting of “Jackson’s Morning Brush” (which he finds republished in Grattan Flood’s The Story of the Bagpipe, a version which consists of only the first and third strains of O’Neill’s setting). Soon after Lee’s publication a version with dance directions appeared in Exshaw's Magazine and Walker's Hibernian Magazine in 1778; the same dance instructions appear in the Dublin publication The Charms of Melody, 1776. “Jackson’s Morning Brush” was introduced, according to O’Neill (1913) in John O’Keefe’s opera The Agreeable Surprise in 1781, and thereafter was included in almost every collection of Irish music. The melody retains some currency among traditional musicians today."

# Posted on April 28th 2007 by Dow

I just more or less lifted this next one from the Fiddler's Companion because it resembles what I heard at a session the other day:

# Posted on April 28th 2007 by Dow

Frank Collins'/Jackson's

I discovered what the original source was for our session, and it is fiddler Frank Collins (1887-1966), via Ben Stephenson and Adrian Barker's recent recording "Undertones". According to the liner notes of their CD, the tune came from an old acetate disc recorded at a commercial studio in Goulburn, NSW in the 1950s. His grandfather, father, and several of his brothers also played the fiddle. He played this tune somewhere between the feel of a slide and a jig. His version is very close to the one in Kerr's Merry Melodies. I wonder if he got it from there...

X: 1
T: Frank Collins'
T: Jackson's
D: Adrian Barker & Ben Stephenson - "Undertones"
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
D2F ~E3|DED DGF|DFA def|gfg ecA|
D2F ~E3|DED DGF|DFA d2e|1 fdd dAF:|2 fdd d2g||
|:fed faf|~g3 ~f3|fed faf|gfg efg|
fed faf|~g3 fed|BAB d2e|1 fee efg:|2 fdd dAF||

# Posted on May 6th 2007 by Dow

Version from Thompson's Compleat Collection of Country Dances c.1770

Surprise! it's in Thompson's!

# Posted on July 27th 2008 by fynnjamin